SOLD Wonderful Folk Art Needle Lace Medallion: Robed Woman with Book (Mourning Picture?) vintage spice chest The larger

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or a fantastic wrap to wear with a little black dress on an evening out

much more in tact on one side than the other

with a tail that doubles as a handle should one want to wear him around one's neck or otherwise carry him around

I have found some references to the Spencer Company of Mount Vernon that produced it from around then

SOLD Wonderful Folk Art Needle Lace Medallion: Robed Woman with Book (Mourning Picture?) vintage spice chest The largerI've always got an eye out for handmade figurative lace, the folkier and more singular the better, so was delighted to find this piece this week, most of all for the fact that its subject holds a book in her hand! Though I'm not certain, I might guess this was made as a mourning piece, with our somewhat mournful looking woman holding one hand over her heart and perhaps reading a prayer from the book in the other, standing in front of what looks like